From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 25 14:34:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hoopy.local (pm3dyn64.dip.CSUChico.EDU [132.241.249.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CECB155A6 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:34:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fcondo@csuchico.edu) Received: from csuchico.edu (localhost.local [127.0.0.1]) by hoopy.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01192 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:34:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36FAB9CE.3B6544E@csuchico.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:33:50 -0800 From: Fred Condo X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: fsck won't clear dirty bit; pr 6794 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Problem report 6794 says: > After a system crash where the root file system needs to be > recovered, mount refuses to remount the root file system, > claiming it is not clean. A second fsck finds no problems. > After rebooting, the file system is found to be clean and can > be mounted without problems. I have a system running FreeBSD 2.2.6 that is exhibiting what I think is this problem, but the file system is not showing up clean. Should I 1) mount -fav in single-user mode, then enter multi-user mode, 2) do a cold restart, or 3) panic? Many thanks for any assistance. Apologies to Greg Lehey for emailing him before reading his web site. -- Fred Condo + fcondo@csuchico.edu + http://webclass.csuchico.edu/ fredcondo@acm.org + fredcondo on Yahoo Pager To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message